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Vegas was built on the money of those who heedlessly preferred to bet the circumstances of their reality on the possibility of their dream. Who played the genuine odds?
Obama is a politician. That means once he gets where you put him, he owes you nothing.
For example, if Obama was so noble to start with, WHY exactly would he let his wife take a doubling in her salary from a PUBLIC HOSPITAL at exactly the minute he went off to Washington where he could vote favorably on her employers interests. Why is an indicator so Chicago-blatant not of any concern to you?
How many hospital community liaisons get paid a thousand dollars a day--every day of the year? Just what was that hospital paying its medical staff if that's what puff patronage pays? How many patients got shorted for that money to be there?
What does that really say about who Obama is? What would that have said if the Clintons had done that? Ask yourself -- and answer to yourself--why it would be different.
Just remember, one definition of history is a listing of all the worst debacles that each seemed such a splendid idea at the time. And then, the actuality of what's really there, and worse --what's not---makes it all come undone.
You see sunrise glimmers of hope. I see the shiny desperation of frantically worshipping a Golden Calf.
And the terrible reality is what you have bet on --with nothing tangible to back it up--to be a True Believer.
You are sorry Hillary lost? Let's both hope you won't find out exactly how sorry that might actually end up being.
My post wasn't about Hillary, anyway. It is a warning about the place quid quo pro has in Obama's every decision. And if you think for one moment you are privy to ANY of the real promised obligations Obama made to get where he is... well, that's just how he got there.
-gala1
